The radical Belgian political reporter Jacques Bekaert, a star of that country’s free-swinging national radio program, King Kong, is surreptitiously a prolific and talented avant-garde composer. While in the States to cover the 1972 presidential race he talked with Charles Amirkhanian about his music in this informal interview. Bekaert gives his impressions of the Nixon presidential campaign and then introduces four of his pieces, including a work utilizing the election eve speech of American Independent presidential hopeful John Schmitz in a quadraphonic sound poem.

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